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Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 867 Send Message	TinaTheCheshirePussyCat	Report	14 May 2005 17:28
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 867 Send Message	Personally I am totally convinced that the genealogy gnome creeps in during the night and adds names of my relatives to censuses which I have already checked. Kind of pleasing but irritating at the same time! Tina
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 80 Send Message	Tracey	Report	14 May 2005 16:57
	Have had similar experiences, seems like just when you have given up ever trying to find those elusive ancestors they start popping up out of the woodwork! It's wonderful!!
	Researching: Isle of Man, London, Lancashire, Cumberland Coombs, Horn, Teare, Christian, Todhunter
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 1,275 Send Message	Margaret	Report	14 May 2005 16:50
	Tried to find John and Annie Miller on the 1901 Scottish census. They only married in 1891, so I thought that by getting the 1901 census I could find out what order they had the children in. There are lots of Johns and Annies. So I tried using the children's names aged 0-10 to see if that helped. Nothing seemed to match, so I gave it up as a lost cause. Just the other day, I was filing the 1901 census for Annie's widowed mother and noticed that next door there was a lodger with the same last name. And who would he be staying with .....John and Annie Miller!!